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The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Second edition revised by A. Steven Corbet and edited by N. D. Riley.
1956 (2nd ed.) x, 537 p., 55 plates including the frontispiece (of which eight in full colour), original green cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt vignette on the front board. Armorial bookplate of H. Hamilton Beamish on the front pastedown, free endpapers and title page very slightly spotted, otherwise a very good clean copy.The first edition was published in 1934 and this is the second, much enlarged edition with many new data and corrections to the systematical parts. The work is still very useful in identifying the varied and often spectacularly coloured species from the Malayan region once studied by Wallace and Distant. Plate 2-21 show the genitalia of 342 different species, and the wings of 322 different specimens are shown on the black and white plates.
The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula.
1934 (1st ed.) xxiv, 252 p., 34 figures, 16 (2 coloured) plates, 2 maps, cloth. Library stamps, else good copy of the first edition.
The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula.
1934 (1st ed.) xxiv, 252 p., 34 figures, 16 (2 coloured) plates, 2 maps, cloth. Library stamps, else good copy of the first edition.
